A kind of breviary of reflections for each day of the year from the Pope’s various writings. Taken from the book, Co-Workers Of The Truth (Ignatius)
The road that lead us forward, the road to progress, must at the same time be a road that leads us backward, back to fundamentals, a road that leads us inward and upward. Christ is the center; to look upon him is our first and noblest task, or, as the first letter of Clement,...
When Peter reaches the shore after the miraculous draft of fishes, there takes place something totally unexpected. Peter does not throw his arms around Jesus, as we might have expected, to thank him for the good catch. Instead, he falls at Jesus’ feet. He does not cling to him in order to extract the...
When we stop to think about what the body means for us, we observe that it bears in itself a certain contradiction. On the one hand, the body is the boundary that cuts us off from other bodies. Where this body is, there can be no other. When I am in this place,...
